Tag Archives: Danielle Peers

FemmeGimp

19th
Apr. × ’10
By Karen
This is super exciting. See you tomorrow, everybody! From the Facebook event page: FemmeGimp and her Queer/Crip Sidekicks: Adventures in the Land of the Benevolent Normates! The Alberta Public Interest Group and the What Sorts Network invite you to engage with the ableism inherent in our society and re-imagine it with visiting activist Loree Erickson. Loree will be [...]
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Go Doc Go

11th
Jan. × ’10
By Karen
Congratulations to Danielle Peers! She has been chosen as an Onlympic Torch “runner”. See her make her way down Groat Road and 111 Ave starting at 4:30 pm this Wednesday, January 13th. More info on Danielle from her official website: Danielle “Doc” Peers is a Paralympic Bronze medalist, world champion and world MVP in wheelchair basketball. [...]
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Transformative Stories: Crip and Queer Art as Activism

18th
Nov. × ’08
By Exposure
Join four crip/queer artists as they present their work, and discuss its relationship to activism, theory and personal experience. Featuring (drum roll, please…): A reading by Eli Clare – Visiting poet, essayist, activist and author of Exile and Pride and The Marrow’s Telling. Spoken word by Lucas Crawford – Poet, performance artist, and PhD student in U of [...]
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